The idea of a Southern nation
Subtitle: Southern nationalist and Southern nationalism, 1830-1860
By: John McCardell. --
Edition: 1st ed. --
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Nationalism -- Southern States -- History; Southern States -- Intellectual life; Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865
Description: "As the nineteenth century began, the United States was a country in search of definition, of national character. Like other Americans, Southerners found the process of national self-definition urgent and exhilarating. But a series of shocks -- social, economic, intellectual, and finally, political -- gave an increasingly distinctive twist to the ideology of nationalism that developed in the South. By 1860, though agreeing with the North over constitutional fundamentals and sharing with other Americans similar hopes and fears, many Southerners had concluded that only in a separate Southern nation could their rights and security be preserved. This book is a study of how and why the ideology of Southern nationalism arose and spread."--Book cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [355]-375. *** Includes index.

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